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One of Brother’s various sensory issues involves his inability to feel a lot of pain.  He can feel pain, he just feels it when it’s really cranked up.  He’s been feeling a bit out of sorts for a few days.  Overnight, he had a fever.  I didn’t check it with a thermometer, but as his mother, I can tell when he’s overly warm and if it’s really bad.  It was pretty bad, but it broke by the morning.  When I woke up, he told me his ear didn’t hurt anymore.  Then he proceeded to tell me that it had been hurting for 12 days.  That stopped me in my tracks.  Twelve days!!  Later in the morning, he confessed that it still hurt.  I was able to make an appointment (boy, we were lucky) and I took him in.  The doctor confirmed he had an ear infection.

Sometimes I am bowled away by the things I have to teach him.  I didn’t think I would have to teach him to tell me when he was hurting.  The poor thing has been suffering from an earache since we returned from vacation.  After much gnashing of teeth (me) and crying big crocodile (him), he took the antibiotic (3 times for 10 days–can’t it be any shorter?).  Then he crashed.  It’s so odd to have him fall asleep at such an odd time of the day (7pm).  It usually takes him 30 minutes, at least, to fall asleep at night.

I’m leaving you with a picture from our trip.  I figure if I can get a picture a day out there, I’ll eventually be able to share my entire trip with y’all.